#Ascension of the Cybermen

[evviejo]

thirteen's era appreciation: 392/?

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[thefiresofpompeii]

no matter how many times the “doctor actually talks about their own negative traits while verbally attacking an antagonist’ trope gets used in this show, i will never tire of it

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[khruschevshoe]

It's so funny to me that Chris Chibnall wrote both Cyberwoman and the Timeless Children because it shows that at one point he DID understand the horror of the Cybermen- that they were formerly people, that they are what's left of a person that is no longer there, that they are a corpse puppeted by a machine, that there is a human component at the center and the horror comes from seeing your former loved one scooped out and your hope forever being cursed to a futile one...to nameless extra Time Lords being made into basically robots except they can regenerate this time. Like, what the hell happened? Did he just spend so long thinking about the Timeless Children plot twist that he just fundamentally misunderstood why the Cybermen are terrifying or how they can be used to add to the tragedy of the plot?

Tell me what fundamentally changes if you make the Cybermen in Haunting of Villa Diodati/Ascension/Timeless Children basic robotic killing machines. Hell, what changes if you make them Daleks? Not once did they seek to convert the Doctor/her allies. If anything, their suits were just used as disguises.

Imagine if during the disguise part of the story the suits had come alive and started converting the team or hell, outright converted one of them. Imagine if they had to deal with the horror of that. Imagine if THAT is what caused Ryan/Graham to realize they didn't want to travel with the Doctor anymore. Hell, you could save them at the last moment if you want and leave them shaken up, just have them experience SOME true horror/fear. If Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel could do that with Jackie Tyler and Cyberwoman could do that with Lisa Hallett in a bone-chiling manner, you could do that with your team. I get if you were trying not to turn your third black companion in a row into a Cyberman, but in that case either sacrifice Graham or Yaz or don't do them at all if you're not going to use them for their express purpose/mechanic within the story.

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[airprime7]

I've been watching Doctor Who episodes randomly, because I'm bad at deciding things, and I've decided to liveblog the next one because I'm insane.

I've already seen them all (NuWho), so I'm not going to be too surprised by anything, more interesting things or thoughts.

The first time I got randomly Partners in Crime (I'd already watched it recently), The Day of the Doctor (watched it literally the week beforehand, Love and Monsters (no) and A Town Called Mercy, which is what I went for (surprisingly good! It had a trans horse that swears!)

Then The Caretaker (eh), The Pilot (I had watched it 3 days ago), Ascension of the Cybermen (which would have come with The Timeless Children, but I wasn't really up those) so I settles on The Sound of Drums (and with it Utopia, and Last of the Time Lords. Better than I remembered, save the Doctor turning into Gollum).

This time my options are Boom Town; Once, Upon Time (probably would choose to watch all of Flux with it if I were to); The Doctor's Wife; or Wild Blue Yonder, which I'm interested to re-watch.

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[themastergifs]

Be afraid, Doctor. Because everything is about to change... forever.

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[tinkerbitch69]

Watching the ascension of the cybermen and omg thirteen going real hard on getting the fam into the TARDIS when shit gets serious cuz

“You’re human. If they capture you, they’ll convert you”

Just…mmm that’s good character development right there. You know images of bill’s conversion where flashing through her head right there. She still hasn’t forgiven herself and everytime she faces the cybermen in the future, she’ll remember bill…

#oh YEAH babyyyy! #gimme that sweet juicy guilty angstTM!!! #doctor who #dw #series 12 #ascension of the cybermen #cybermen #bill potts #thirteenth doctor #jodie whittaker

[billdecker]

Doctor Who Rewatch | Ascension of the Cybermen

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[justahumblememefarmer]

Ultimate Doctor Who Poll Round 2 - Matchup 28

Episode Summaries under the cut

50: Ascension of the Cybermen/The Timeless Children - Season 12, Episode 9 & 10: The Doctor, Yaz, Graham, and Brian arrive in the far future to stop they Cybermen after encountering a lone Cyberman , Ashad, with Mary Shelley. They find one of the few remaining human settlements, but are separated by attacking Cybermen. Graham and Yaz take off in a ship with the human survivors to find Ko Sharmus, a place that can supposedly take them far from the Cybermen. The Doctor and Ryan steal Ashad's ship.

Graham, Yaz, and the humans make their way to a Cyberman war carrier, but it begins to activate. Ashad returns to this ship, ready to hunt the humans and Doctor down, taking it to Ko Sharmus. The Doctor and Ryan arrive at Ko Sharmus, finding him to actually be an old man who can open a wormhole to far away space, and has helped many human refugees escape the Cybermen

Yaz is able to send a message to the Doctor, explaining their situation. As Ko Sharmus opens the boundary, they see a ruined Gallifrey through the portal and the Master steps through and kidnaps her.

On Gallifrey, the Master forces the Doctor into the Matrix, a database of Time Lord memory and history, to show her Gallifrey's secret past. A long time ago, an early Gallifreyan space traveler, Tecteun, found a child under a wormhole from another universe. Tecteun took the child back to Gallifrey and after an injury the child regenerated. Tecteun experimented on the child to learn the secrets of regeneration, then spliced it into themself. As Gallifreyans advanced, they discovered Time Travel and named themselves Time Lords. Tecteun proposed to give the ability to regenerate to the Time Lords. The Doctor asks what happened to the child, and the Master reveals that it was her.

Yaz and Graham and their allies hide inside Cybermen suits. Ryan and the humans he is with try and fight off the Cybermen, and when they are finally cornered, Yaz in her Cybersuit takes them out, and the humans all reunite.

The Doctor rejects that she was the Timeless Child, but the Master reveals that Tecteun and the child were inducted into a group called Division. After her service, the Doctor's memories were erased and she was forced back into becoming a child with a new regeneration cycle. This may have happened more than once, the number being unknown. The data of her stolen lives has been covered up in the Matrix.

Outside of the Matrix, the Master reveals that he has been working with Ashad and the Cybermen. After destroying Gallifrey, the Master kept the Time Lords bodies and used them to extrapolate the ability to regenerate and give it to the Cybermen, which he now dubs CyberMasters.

The humans make their way to Gallifrey and rescue the Doctor, and they discover that the Master has a death particle, which he can use to destroy life across the universe. They manage to thwart his plan and Ko Sharmus stays behind to blow up the death particle, destroying all the CyberMasters on Gallifrey. The Doctor sends Yaz, Graham, and Ryan back to Earth in one TARDIS, then uses another to go back to her own. As she prepares to leave to return to her friends, the Judoon approach and imprison her.

79: Partners in Crime - Season 4, Episode 1: The Doctor and Donna Noble both independently investigate a company selling miracle diet pills that cause people to lose weight over night. Sneaking into the company at night, they run into each other and discover that the pills are actually creating life forms called Adipose, made out of living fat. However, anybody who discovers this is killed, turning the rest of their mass into baby Adipose as well.

The CEO of the company has been hired by the Adiposian families to create children for them after the loss of their breeding planet. After being found out by the Doctor and Donna, she summons the Adipose ships and begins the conversion process on their customers, which will kill all of them.

The Doctor and Donna manage to stop the devices, saving the lives of the customers. The ships descend and take the babies home, and kill the CEO despite the Doctor trying to save her. He offers Donna the chance to travel with him again, to which she eagerly agrees. As she goes to leave with him, she hides the car keys in a trash bin nearby, calls her mother to tell her they're there, then tells a woman nearby to wait for her to help. After she leaves, the woman turns around and is revealed to be Rose Tyler.

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[master-missysversion]

I love that the brendan story is like. Everything is perfectly normal. Until you look a little too closely. Or watch a little too long. But even if someone had watched the whole thing, if theyre not familiar with earth customs, they might just assume everyone who retires from the garda gets their memory wiped. But even so, if they're paying attention then theyll probably find it a bit odd that brendan had aged but his loving father and supportive superior officer (who are now both torturing him and wiping his memory) haven't aged at all somehow. It's such a good allegory for the story of tecteun and the other higher ups exploiting the timeless child for endless life (thus lack of ageing) then betraying them after initially posing as someone to be trusted

#this was in my liveblog but i wanted it on its own #doctor who #brendan #the timeless child #ascension of the cybermen #fun fact! my brothers name is brendan. i always loved that its that specific spelling too bc so many people spell his name wrong #bc theyve only seen it as brendon

[spoofymcgee]

is ascension of the cybermen like, objectively good? no. no it is solidly mid and very confusing and it has all of the wrong vibes–what do you mean there are seven humans left in the universe. fuck off. ok great then so our stakes are tiny yeah. no other season finale has such low stakes.

we don't get enough time with the characters to really care about them. they can do that–they pulled it off in world enough and time/the doctor falls, but the doctor doesn't seem...

she's just scared. there's none of the desperation, none of the determination, none of the surety. and maybe that's by design but it feels wrong and the characters have no hope and who the fuck is brendan.

but!

he is back!!!! my funky little guy!!! my nutzo little dude!!!! i love him so much!!!!!!

#it is a very good entrance #AND SO PRETTY #ascension of the cybermen #dhawan!master #doctor who #thirteenth doctor

[cansadodemais00]

Meet Brendan. • Ascension of the Cybermen (Doctor Who)

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[evviejo]

requested by anonymous >> the thirteenth doctor's eyes

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[thefiresofpompeii]

“oh it’s warp, of course! which makes it trickier, unless you’re me, which i am. which is good, because i used to hotwire warp drives for fun on a weekend as a teenager. not that we had weekends. or teenagers. basically, i used to do this a lot and people got mad”

#i love that engineering is her defining trait #like obviously all the doctors were good at constructing fiddly doodads and knickknacks but she does it on the fly #thirteen #ascension of the cybermen #dw #jamie catches up #thirteenth doctor #jamie.txt

[thematrix-theuniverseofdoctorwho]

“Doctor Who; Ascension Of The Cybermen / The Timeless Children”

#doctor who #ascension of the cybermen #the timeless children

[dwimpossblog]

Ascension of the Cybermen

In the far future, the Doctor and her companions must aid the last of the human race in their battle against the Cybermen! Ascension of the Cybermen is this week's #TBT!

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[neeneeeeeee]

They really could have gone somewhere with the lone CYBERMEN, but instead that fell flat because the Master turned him into a doll and it was all about the Master whining about how the Doctor is inside him (lol pun may be intended)

Ngl I hate dhawans characterization of the master. His personality and execution is NOT very Mastery? With Simms, I understood the ticking made him a nutter. And I guess looking into the time portal ??? But with Dhawan, after Missy's era, I would've thought he would be more insidious and calm like Delgado....

BUT i honestly I understand the sentiment about The Future Master wanting to see the Doctor transform into "death" like him, and not "rebirth " like he's always been... Especially the reveal regarding her "rebirths" which if dissected properly, it really is about The Doctor's trauma splicing of the self, which I'm guessing will play a role re: bigeneration

I have no issue with the Timeless Child concept for now...... NOTHING has changed. The "indigenous" gallifreyans who injected themselves with Doctor's "TIMELORD" energy are still there in the plot, same as it did during Sixth Doctor's time (the trials of a TIMELORD)...

I think the Timeless Child plot is more about the psycho-historical aspect of the title character, THE DOCTOR, rather than actually "changing" the history of DW as a show? And I approve tbh

So in that sense, the CYBERMEN trilogy was surprisingly weaved well together in terms of gallifrey/doctor history.

I am still not a fan of Dhawan's Master characteristization, Ngl. I hate the fuck out of Dhawan's characterization.

And Ryan Sinclair is most definitely a character I enjoy watching increasingly.

And I have to bring this up..mmmm, so their explanation about Yaz being a "flat character" because she didn't make some lovely speech like Graham did is because "I'M YORKSHIRE MATE".

Idk what to say about that tbh. They're slowly fleshing her out, but it feels so dry? Like when she tried to stop Thirteen from setting off the bomb herself, meh. didn't bring any emotion out of me.

AND THEY REALLY COULD HAVE GONE SOMEWHERE WITH THE LONE CYBERMAN WITH FEELINGS, Wasted potential .

I love the bit about the TARDIS in the end with a working chameleon circuit as a Tree!!

Edit: did they kill the master for good?

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